Mads Kristensen

Mads Kristensen is a Program Manager on the Web Platforms & Tools team at Microsoft working on the web developer experiences of Visual Studio. He has over a decade of experience in developing web applications on the Microsoft platform which got him the honor of becoming both an ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. When he founded the BlogEngine.NET open source project, he didn’t realize that it would grow to be the most popular blog application on the ASP.NET platform, used by 800,000 people worldwide. Mads is also the creator of some popular Visual Studio extension including Web Essentials, Image Optimizer and CssCop.